I was first aware of him when Sara Pascoe (his comedienne girlfriend at the time) was on a programme with a Queen mirror that she said belonged to her Queen-obsessed partner. He was also on Live At The Apollo Christmas edition and walked out on stage to the strains of Thank God It's Christmas.

I saw him most recently at the Edinburgh Fringe where he did a show about the breakup of his relationship and did a joke about how was now 'living on his own' and the Freddie song started playing. He went on to explain that to fully appreciate that you need an intimate knowledge of Freddie Mercury's solo career and cited the '1992' single which had just played. Where of course it was released in 1993. Maybe if he hadn't made that mistake he wouldn't have had to share the Best Show at the Fringe award with someone else